It’s important to remember that mistakes and failure are just a normal part of life. Plus, it’s often our mistakes that teach us all the good stuff we need to know to keep moving forward!

A big part of your fear of being judged or of letting people down comes from the script that plays inside your head—a script that says others might not love or accept you if you don’t perform the way you think they want you to.

Nothing builds up confidence faster than just taking action and doing it scared.

When you can start looking at life as a series of lessons rather than mistakes, it will give you more freedom to experiment rather than always striving to achieve perfection.

It’s okay to have your own opinion and for other people to disagree. Disagreement doesn’t mean they don’t like you.

The only way to truly overcome your insecurities and fears of not being capable is to start proving to yourself that you actually are capable.

It’s not always easy to write your own rules, especially when you are most comfortable with following other people’s rules.

When you make a conscious choice to stop worrying about all the ways you might screw up and focus instead only on what you can learn from the experience, you give yourself the power to simply try, regardless of what the outcome will be.

Your principles don’t need to be elaborate or even completely original, but they should ring true to you and fit within your own set of core beliefs.

Make a point of practicing imperfect action—do one thing each day just to do it, not because it needs to be “right.